[Arm-netbook] Any ARM SoC has Open-Source access to hardware video decoder ?

lkcl luke luke.leighton at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 18:19:52 BST 2012


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 06/26/2012 04:30 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Roman Mamedov<rm at romanrm.ru>  wrote:
>>
>>> Next step?
>>> You can make 10 million small form factor PCs, think Mele A1000 maybe without
>>> SATA/RCA/remote and no Android b/s, just with Debian from the factory, priced
>>> $50 and sell them to the education or government market.
>>
>>   yep, that's the plan.  but starting with a 14in laptop I/O Board, and
>> they want large SATA hard drives as well.
>
> Why 14"? As far as I can tell it is the worst size in terms of screen
> availability and resolution choice.

 that's up to the customer, not us.  my guess is that as it's govt
market they want big chunky (unstealable and resilient) laptops.
still 1280x768 (or thereabouts)

 *shrug* :)

 l.



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